The Echo Maker

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Synopsis
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman–who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister–is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras Syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.

Set against the Platte River's massive spring migrations–one of the greatest spectacles in nature–The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

The Echo Maker is the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.

Copyright:
2006

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
443 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780374146351
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Richard Powers
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Medicine
Submitted By:
Ed Tarantelli
Proofread By:
Kestrell
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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